A MAN fought to save his boyfriend's life after he got his arm caught in a train travelling to Bromsgrove.

Dominic Preece, 17, slipped on the platform at Droitwich Spa Railway Station and was dragged along the tracks by the train, almost severing his left arm.

His partner Tom jumped down onto the tracks to care for Dominic after the accident on Friday, May 12.

He wrapped him in his coat and waited for the emergency services, who then took him to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

Surgeons had to amputate the arm below the shoulder but he is now in a stable condition.

Tom, 20, from Kidderminster, said he was with Dominic and a friend, Rosie, when the incident occurred. They had just got off their train when they realised that Dominic had left his bag in the carriage.

"The train doors started to shut and it began moving away from the platform," Tom said.

"He started running after it. We just turned away and thought he's not going to catch it.

"We never thought he would get hurt. Then a member of the public said your friend has fallen over."

Tom said he ran down the platform and saw Dominic, who is also from Kidderminster, lying in a pool of blood on the tracks.

"He went on top of me and I held his left arm up to try and stop the blood and then held his other hand to tell him he's okay," he said.

"We think the train wheels ran over his arm. It was hanging on by a little bit of flesh.

"I could see all his bones and veins, it was shocking. This is the man I love. It couldn't have happened to a better person. It's mentally damaged me."

Dominic's mum Kerry Preece, of Lowesmoor Terrace, Worcester, said her son's friend, Rosie, rang her just after the accident occurred.

"She said he fell in between the train and the platform. His partner Tom jumped down onto the track," she said.

"He laid him on top of him to stop his temperature from dropping.

"He scooped him up and wrapped him in his coat, kept his arm up to steady the bloodflow [and] was talking to him, keeping him warm and conscious.”

The 35-year-old said Tom's selflessness saved her son's life.

"The train was coming back from Hereford and they had to get off at Droitwich to change to get to Kidderminster," she said.

"He got cut in the train somehow. It severed the major arteries of his arm. He was dragged about 100 metres.

"He had a head injury - it appears he banged his head. He could have done it when he hit the tracks or when he was dragged along."

She added that her son is not yet aware that he has lost his arm and is still in a drowsy state.

The mother said she went to Droitwich Spa Railway Station after the accident and saw how far her son was dragged along the tracks.

She is now demanding that action be taken to prevent another accident from happening.

Ms Preece wants to see high-visibility assistants on the station platform and a reduction in the gap between the platform and the trains.

She also wants Tom to be rewarded for his selfless actions and has started an appeal to pay for private treatment to get her son a prosthetic arm.

Anyone who wants to donate to the appeal can do so on justgiving.com/crowdfunding/droitwich-train-accident.